The Satuit Nimrod

KC's Game Feed

Reserve Saturday, January 24th as this is the date the 46th KC's Annual Game Feed is held. This is the largest event on the club's calendar. Started 46 years ago by Kenny Crowell, the Game Feed has been held continuously since then, with the exception of 2015 when the skeet field was, literally, waist deep in snow.

The event starts at 11:00 am and runs until 4:00 pm. Admission is $40/person, 18 years and under are free. Bring your appetite as there will be game such as venison, goose and duck plus a spit-roasted wild hogs that will be roasted at the club along with hamburgers and hotdogs. Additionally, there will be a Seafood Tent and Raw Bar for those with nautical tastes. 

Skeet and Trap

A big word of thanks goes out to the members who diagnosed and fixed the problems with the Skeet and Trap field. Major contributors were: Mike Sheehan, Greg Morse and Bill Berry. 

Skeet is shooting on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. Trap is  shooting on Saturday mornings and Tuesday evenings. See the Calendar section below for times.

Cowboy Action Shooting

The Gunnysackers are are on a winter hiatus when it comes to traveling, but will continue to hold matches at our club. The next Cowboy Action Shoot is scheduled for Saturday, January 10th, starting at 9:00 am..

Pistol

The Pistol Committee held a .22 Rimfire Reactive Shoot on Saturday, December 6th. Nine members braved the cold to shoot both handguns and rifles at a mixture of steel targets that reacted in some fashion when hit, plus balloons to pop.

First three finishers were:

Dick Martin – 163
Ed Hunnifeld – 157
Phil Lennon – 139 

The next pistol match is a Miss and Your Out! match on Saturday, January 3rd, starting at noon.

Safety Course

Starting in January, the monthly Safety Course will be given on the first Wednesday and Thursday of the month.

News Around The Club

Attendance at year's Turkey Shoot was down compared to other years. We were competing against the Patriots, who were in an important play-off match, and the Marshfield club who were holding their own Turkey Shoot. Expect next year's event to be held a week earlier.

The closing "…And Finally" graphic was supplied by Ron Rice; thanks Ron!

Quotes of the Month

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man"

~ Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

"The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous when the streets are full of "civilians" who may or may not be armed. Poor babies!"

~ Col. Jeff Cooper

"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."

 ~ George Orwell

Welcome Aboard
Scituate Rod & Gun Club welcomes these new members who have joined us recently:

David Fulton

Kenneth Fulton

Adam Jackson

Julie Jackson

Tyler Judge

Kelsea Judge

Justin Loggia

Updating A Legend: Ruger Makes 10/22 Upgrades Standard

by Jeremiah Knupp — posted on December 30, 2025 in NRA American Rifleman.

In all areas of technology, certain designs rise to the top, dominate and become so popular, they become the industry-wide standard as soon as their patent protections expire. In few categories is that process more evident than firearms, with models from the Remington Model 700 to the AR-15 becoming the de-facto pattern in their respective categories.

When it comes to a semi-automatic .22 LR rifle, that benchmark is the Ruger 10/22, a design of which more than 10 million have been produced over the last 60 years, dominating every field from plinking to competition. In the course of those decades, aspects of the 10/22, from its magazine to its barrel design, have been adopted by other manufacturers. Competition is a good thing and in response, Ruger has announced updates to keep its factory 10/22 on the top of the pile.

Many of Ruger’s updates have already been introduced for specific 10/22 models, but these elements are now becoming standard across the board. The first of these is the BX-Trigger, originally introduced a decade ago as a drop-in upgrade for 10/22 rifles and Charger pistols. Tuned like a competition trigger, it has a pull weight between 2.5 and 3 lbs., with a crisp break, minimal overtravel, and a positive reset, and is contained within a new polymer housing.

A match-type bolt lock has been added, which allows a bolt that has been manually locked to the rear to be released with a simple pull-and-release of the charging handle, for one-handed operation. The rifle’s receiver now has a cleaning port in the rear, which allows for the barrel to be cleaned from the chamber end with a cleaning rod. 

Standard models of the 10/22 will use a newly designed polymer stock, that has textured panels in the pistol grip and fore-end areas, integrated QD sling swivel mounts, and M-Lok slots in the 6 o’clock position on the fore-end to facilitate the mounting of accessories. A relief is molded into the stock to facilitate removing the magazine.

The rest of the features remain classic 10/22, including an alloy receiver and cold hammer-forged barrel held in place by a V-block system, a crossbolt safety, and a detachable 10-round rotary box magazine. All rifles are drilled and tapped for optics and come with a scope base adapter.

Standard model 10/22s will be available in six configurations. The rifle will be available with either blued or stainless steel barrels with a matching receiver finish with either a 16.4-inch barrel with its muzzle threaded 1/2x28 TPI or an unthreaded 18.5-inch barrel. The rifle will also be offered with a factory-mounted Viridian EON 3-9X 40 mm scope, with a blued finish and either barrel length.

The new models have the following MSRPs:

    Blued, 16.4-inch threaded barrel: $329

    Blued, 18.5-inch barrel: $299

    Stainless, 16.4-inch threaded barrel: $369   

    Stainless, 18.5-inch barrel: $339

    Blued, 16.4-inch threaded barrel, factory-mounted scope: $399

    Blued, 18.5-inch barrel, factory-mounted scope: $369

For more information, see the company’s website.

Club Calendar.

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

Monday, January 5th – 7:30 pm

MONTHLY MEETING

Monday, January 5th – 8:00 pm

SKEET
Sundays: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.
Wednesdays: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm.

TRAP

Tuesdays: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Saturdays: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm.

PISTOL
Saturday, January 3rd – Noon. "Miss and You're Out" match.

COWBOY
Saturday, January 10th, 9:00 am – Cowboy Action Shoot.

KC's GAME FEED
Saturday, January 24th,  11:00 am — 4:00 pm.

SAFETY COURSE
Wednesday, January 7th –7:00 pm & Thursday, January 8th  – 7:00 pm Register here.

RANGE ORIENTATION CLASS
Sunday, January 11th – 9:00 am Register here.

…And Finally